14 Bible Verses about football

Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.

So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air.

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.

An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.

You shall not eat any of their flesh, and you shall not touch their carcasses; they are unclean to you.

"Thus says the Lord GOD: This is Jerusalem. I have set her in the center of the nations, with countries all around her.

But he turned and rebuked them.

But he said to him, "A man once gave a great banquet and invited many.

And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the LORD. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men, with their backs to the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east, worshiping the sun toward the east.

But God's firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: "The Lord knows those who are his," and, "Let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity."

In that day the Lord will take away the finery of the anklets, the headbands, and the crescents;

"The LORD will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them. And you shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Then those who feared the LORD spoke with one another. The LORD paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the LORD and esteemed his name.

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.